Working With Fathers in Psychoanalytic Parent-Infant Psychotherapy

Tessa Baradon initiated the Parent Infant Project at the Anna Freud Centre and leads on the training in psychoanalytic parent infant psychotherapy at the Centre. She is Adjunct Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, School of Human and Community Development, and consults on parent-infant psychotherapy service development and training in different settings. She writes and lectures on applied psychoanalysis and parent-infant psychotherapy.

Dedication

Editor and Contributor Biographies

PREFACE, Tessa Baradon

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A JOURNEY INTO FATHERHOOD: THE ART OF FAILING GRACEFULLY
Dickon Bevington




THE ROLE OF FATHERS IN EARLY CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Kai von Klitzing




"THE DOOR IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD": A FATHER’S FAILURE TO MOURN THE DEATHS OF HIS PARENTS
Angela Joyce




WAKING DADDY UP: RESTORING A FATHER’S PLACE IN A BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER COUPLE
Alejandra Perez




WHEN WORKING THERAPEUTICALLY WITH A BABY’S FATHER IS NOT POSSIBLE
Amanda Jones




PATERNAL ORIENTATIONS AND THE ART OF BEING A FATHER
Joan Raphael-Leff




WORKING WITH THE TRIAD
Tessa Baradon




THE MALE THERAPIST IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Abel Fagin




THE THERAPIST AND THE FATHER IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Yael Segal




WORKING WITH COUPLES AS PARENTS AND PARENTS AS COUPLES
Louise Emanuel




CAN THE DIFFICULTIES OF CARRYING OUT THE PATERNAL FUNCTION FOR A TODDLER BE IDENTIFIED FROM THE EARLIEST MONTHS OF A BABY’S LIFE?
Marie-Christine Laznik




FREUD ON FATHERS: WHO CARES?
Björn Salomonsson




THREE THEMES ABOUT FATHERS IN PARENT-INFANT PSYCHOTHERAPY
Björn Salomonsson, Tessa Baradon and Kai von Klitzing




AND WHAT ABOUT MOTHERS?

Tessa Baradon

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